Isaac Pitman Quotes

#1. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.

Mitch Albom

#2. asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not - I'd read it first. I don't think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn't known what was going to happen. I'd have been way too worried.

Will Schwalbe

#3. Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he was sliding around like an eyeball on a plate. An eyeball that could still see, however. That was the trouble.

Margaret Atwood

#4. My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.

Wes Craven

#5. Don't think shoot. Soon as you start thinking you miss.

Steve Kerr

#6. I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

Isaac Pitman

#7. In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

Trip Adler

#8. You will not pass!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

Cyprian

#10. There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

Al-Shafi'i

#11. I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

Denis Johnson

#12. sometimes people are broken and don't know how to mend because they aren't able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it's so deep and bitterly ingrained you can't start.

Loreth Anne White

#13. Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Isaac Pitman

#14. I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushner